2016/10/26

#44 SKYDIVE

Yes, we did it. We jumped out of a plane and paid for it ! And it was truly amazing.
You feel all your muscles contracting - facing the fear of the upcoming
jump - all the way up in the plane, your head thinking literally
nothing and your eyes about to estimate the growing distance back to the
ground. It takes approximately around 10 min until you reach the
customary distance on which the plane gets rid of your weight - time to
jump ! Me and my friend have been the last ones in the plane - the last
ones standing basically :P - which meant that we've seen all the other
people just falling out of the plane (no joke-that is exactly how it
looks like), we saw them screaming while leaving too fast to even hear
the duly sound and we slowly internalized that we are next. The next
step happens so fast that I can hardly remember it - the jump. I was
screaming till the surrounding CO2 should have actually been used before
realizing what I was doing in that very moment, before internalizing
the distance I kept to everything down on earth and the resemblance to
those foolish - but quite common - childhood dream of flying I still
cherish somewhere in my heart. And of course - there was also a rather
small piece of fear coming up in that moment. What if it doesn't work?
If something goes wrong ? - You're dead - that is what would happen in
that case. But I am still alive and wouldn't even have to think about
jumping a second time. I felt literally free - acknowledged the distance
I kept to the earth and everything on it for those short time that did
not felt as little as it was and loved the incredible amount of
adrenaline floating through my incapable body like fire, burning out all
the fear. One moment later you feel something pulling you ab - the
parachute ! You slow down, start to float around in the air like a
feather - as if gravity would fail on your body. The flight is over!
Lean back and enjoy the view !

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